114 HELIOCORYS MODESTA. 



buff. Tail : blackish brown with rather narrow ashy edges ; outer feather 

 with nearly the whole of the external web rufous buff and a tinge of that 

 colour towards the end of the inner web ; the penultimate feather with 

 a very narrow buff edge to the outer web. Sides of head and the upper 

 throat white ; ear- coverts mostly brown ; a black band from the nostril 

 to the eye, and a blackish brown patch along the top and in front of the 

 ear-coverts passing into scattered spots on the sides of the upper throat ; 

 lower throat, under surface of body and under tail-coverts buff ; lower throat 

 and crop with broad black shaft stripes, and a patch of that colour separating 

 the crop from the side of the lower neck, the latter buffy brown with 

 rather narrow black shaft-stripes ; flanks narrowly streaked and partially 

 shaded with rufous brown. " Iris brown ; bill dusky brown fading into 

 flesh colour towards the base; tarsi and feet flesh colour" (Emin). Total 

 length in the ilesh 6 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3-3, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-8. ^ , 

 14. 11. 82. Kudurma (Emin). 



Adult female. Upper parts slightly paler and more rufous buff on the 

 tail ; outer feather with the exterior web and a large terminal portion of the 

 inner web rufous buff, which colour extends over quite half of the outer web 

 of the penultimate feather ; lower throat and crop with very small narrow 

 shaft-spots. Total length in the flesh 5-5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3-1, tail 

 1-9, tarsus 0-8. 2 , 17. 1. 88. Eedjaf (Emin). 



Heuglin's Little Crested-Lark inhabits the Sudan from 

 Gambaga (10° 30' N. lat., 1° W. long.), to the Upper White 

 Nile district. 



The members of this genus have been divided into three 

 races: Galerita modesta, Heugl., Mirafra hiicolica, Hartl., and 

 Heliocorys modesta giffardi, Hartert ; but I fail to find any 

 definite characters for distinguishing them. 



The type of G. modesta, Heugl., was discovered in the 

 Bongo country of the White Nile, near the Kasanga river, 

 where these Larks were found frequenting the sunny openings 

 in this wooded district; they were generally to be seen 

 perched on stones or ant-hills and more rarely on the tops 

 of grass-tufts, and in song and habits reminded Heuglin of 

 the Short-toed Larks. The type measured : wing 3"12 inches, 

 tail 1'6, tarsus 072, culmen 0'4. Owing to the specimens 

 procured by Emin Pasha, some 400 miles further up the 

 Nile, being slightly darker and on an average larger, Hartlaub 



